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In Hong Kong Restrictions on Rights to Peaceful Assembly and Freedom of Expression and Association BEIJING’S “RED LINE” IN HONG KONG RESTRICTIONS ON RIGHTS TO PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND ASSOCIATION Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 7 million people who campaign for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. Our vision is for every person to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. We are independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion and are funded mainly by our membership and public donations. © Amnesty International 2019 Cover photo: An estimated 1.03 million people in Hong Kong took to the streets to protest the Extradition Except where otherwise noted, content in this document is licensed under a Creative Commons Bill on 9 June 2019. (Photo credit: Amnesty International) (attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives, international 4.0) licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode For more information please visit the permissions page on our website: www.amnesty.org Where material is attributed to a copyright owner other than Amnesty International this material is not subject to the Creative Commons licence. First published in 2019 by Amnesty International Ltd Peter Benenson House, 1 Easton Street London WC1X 0DW, UK Index: ASA 17/0944/2019 Original language: English amnesty.org CONTENTS CONTENTS 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5 1. BEIJING’S “RED LINE” IN HONG KONG 8 1.1 THE SINO-BRITISH JOINT DECLARATION AND THE BASIC LAW 8 1.2 NATIONAL SECURITY LEGISLATION 9 1.3 THE WHITE PAPER ON “ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS” 10 2. OCCUPY CENTRAL AND THE UMBRELLA MOVEMENT 11 2.1 THE MOVEMENT’S BEGINNINGS 11 2.2 POLICE USE OF FORCE AND INACTION 12 2.3 ASSOCIATED ARRESTS 13 3. CROSSING THE “RED LINE” 15 3.1 RESTRICTIONS ON FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION 15 HONG KONG NATIONAL PARTY 16 DEMOSISTŌ 16 HONG KONG CONFEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS 18 HONG KONG ALLIANCE IN SUPPORT OF PATRIOTIC DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS OF CHINA 18 3.2 CENSORSHIP AND SELF-CENSORSHIP 19 TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS 19 NGOS 22 MEDIA 23 THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY 24 3.3 DETENTION OF MISSING BOOKSELLERS IN MAINLAND 25 3.4 ADMINISTRATIVE RESTRICTIONS ON PROTESTS 26 PUBLIC ORDER ORDINANCE 26 ENFORCEMENT OF THE PUBLIC ORDER ORDINANCE 26 3.5 POLICE USE OF FORCE AND INACTION 28 PHYSICAL VIOLENCE 28 BEIJING’S “RED LINE” IN HONG KONG RESTRICTIONS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN HONG KONG Amnesty International 3 OBSTRUCTION, HARASSMENT AND INTIMIDATION 29 3.6 PROSECUTIONS 30 PUBLIC ORDER ORDINANCE AND CHARGES FREQUENTLY MISUSED 31 SEEKING THE MAXIMUM PENALTY 32 4. THE EXTRADITION BILL PROTESTS 34 4.1 UNNECESSARY AND EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE BY POLICE ON 12 JUNE 35 4.2 DECLARING THE PROTESTS ON 12 JUNE A “RIOT” 36 4.3 ARRESTS 36 4.4 POLICE INACTION 37 5. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS 40 5.1 FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION 40 5.2 FREEDOMS OF PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY AND ASSOCIATION 41 6. CONCLUSION 43 RECOMMENDATIONS 43 BEIJING’S “RED LINE” IN HONG KONG RESTRICTIONS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN HONG KONG Amnesty International 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY “I keep on saying there is still hope for Hong Kong, but most of the time I am frustrated about Hong Kong’s future … Hong Kong is not far from being a part of the closed system of China, completely without freedom and democracy” Lam Wing-hang, former student union leader The handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China in 1997 was founded on the principle of “one country, two systems”, a guarantee to preserve Hong Kong’s separate legal and economic system for 50 years agreed in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration. To this end, the Basic Law, enacted to serve as mini- constitution for the new Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), stipulated that Hong Kong would exercise “a high degree of autonomy and enjoy executive, legislative and independent judicial power”. The Basic Law also stipulated that the HKSAR would safeguard a range of rights and freedoms according to law. Under the Basic Law, the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), extended to Hong Kong in 1976, would remain in force and Hong Kong residents should expect to enjoy rights and freedoms without restriction, unless such restriction were prescribed by law and did not contravene the provisions of the ICCPR. In this way, Hong Kongers enjoyed a degree of legal human rights protection unknown to those living across the border in mainland China. These promises of autonomy and human rights protection have increasingly come under attack through a series of policies and actions taken by the Beijing government in tandem with the Hong Kong authorities. Having set out a “red line” on Hong Kong that targets “any attempt to endanger China’s sovereignty or security, challenge the power of the Chinese government, or use Hong Kong to carry out infiltration and sabotage activities against the mainland”, the vague and all-encompassing definition of national security regularly employed to target activism and speech in mainland China has been gradually introduced into Hong Kong in recent years. The people of Hong Kong have repeatedly demonstrated deep concern about encroachment on the Basic Law’s promised rights and “one country, two systems”. In 2003, half a million marched to protest the government’s proposal for national security legislation, leading to its withdrawal. The 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement protests and Occupy Central campaign galvanized an even larger degree of participation, as student groups and other members of the public occupied major roads over an 11-week period to protest a decision by Beijing authorities to limit “universal suffrage” by placing restrictions on how candidates for Hong Kong’s Chief Executive elections would be selected. These protests have since been dwarfed by the turnout for a series of protests in 2019, which were sparked by fears that the government’s proposed Extradition Bill would lead to people in Hong Kong being sent to face trial under mainland China’s criminal justice system, which has a well-documented record of arbitrary detention, torture and other ill-treatment, serious violations of fair-trial rights, enforced disappearances and BEIJING’S “RED LINE” IN HONG KONG RESTRICTIONS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN HONG KONG Amnesty International 5 various systems of incommunicado detention without trial. More than 2 million people marched peacefully in the streets of Hong Kong on 16 June 2019, a record far surpassing the turnout for previous marches. The huge numbers of people who have taken part in these protests over the years reflect not only their determination to protect human rights and rule of law in Hong Kong but also concern – and increasingly anger – over the way that authorities in Hong Kong and mainland China have responded to these demands. Chief among their concerns have been increasingly unwarranted restrictions on the rights to peaceful assembly and free expression; lack of police accountability for unnecessary and excessive force, as well as failure to act against harassment and violence by third parties against protesters; politically motivated prosecution and harsh punishment of protest leaders, sometimes years after their initial arrest; and rhetoric from both Beijing and Hong Kong that paints protest and activism as threats to national security being orchestrated from abroad. Despite repeated criticism from human rights groups and UN human rights bodies, these aggressive tactics have increased in frequency since the Umbrella Movement, affecting many Hong Kongers’ perceptions of how much human rights protection they can expect from their government. Since 2014, political parties, labour unions and NGOs have come under attack, accused of crossing the “red line”. Educational institutions, the media, the entertainment industry, social service providers and other civil society groups have come under an atmosphere of censorship and self-censorship. The police use the notification requirement of the Public Order Ordinance to ban or place unreasonable limits on peaceful protest. Commenting on police use of the Public Order Ordinance provisions, Jimmy Sham, convener of the Civil Human Rights Front, an umbrella organization of approximately 50 local groups, told Amnesty International: “We submit a proposal to the police about the protest, the police send a Notice of No Objection to us, with or without negotiation. We have no choice but to sign, or the protest will become an ‘unauthorized assembly’.” The examples of obstruction, harassment, intimidation and prosecution collected by Amnesty International help to explain in part what has motivated much of the unprecedented mobilization during the Extradition Bill protests. The fact that authorities in both Hong Kong and mainland China have continued to use many of the same tactics in responding to the Extradition Bill protests suggests that the influence of the “red line” remains deeply felt. The authorities appear to hope that, by treating the ordinary exercise of rights to association, expression and peaceful assembly as threats to national security or “one country, two systems” that must be severely dealt with, people in Hong Kong (and elsewhere in China) would be discouraged from demanding their rights. Many of the people who spoke to Amnesty International described how their uncertainty about whether their rights would be protected had in fact led them or others to refrain from engaging in public participation and activism after the Umbrella Movement. Yet, the huge turnout for the Extradition Bill protests also suggests that the more Hong Kongers have seen their rights come under attack, the more determined they seem to have become. In the meantime, the aggressive response from police has only escalated tensions rather than calming the violence of protesters and counter-protesters. KEY RECOMMENDATIONS The Hong Kong authorities should reaffirm their commitment to the human rights and freedoms that are enumerated in Hong Kong’s Basic Law and uphold its obligations under international law and domestic law to respect, protect and fulfil the rights specified in the ICCPR and elsewhere.
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